From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: James Bourne <jbourne@hardrock.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [netfilter-core] 2.4.23/others and ip_conntrack causing hangs
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:33:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031202065849.779362C085@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:20:15 BST." <3FCBDABF.6080804@trash.net>
In message <3FCBDABF.6080804@trash.net> you write:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> >Unfortunately, some packets are still referencing connections, so the
> >module *cannot* go away. Figuring out exactly where the packets are
> >referenced from is the fun part. We explicitly drop the reference in
> >ip_local_deliver_finish() for exactly this reason. Perhaps there is
> >somewhere else we should be doing the same thing.
> >
> >
> Perhaps in dev_queue_xmit ? Otherwise packets stuck in queues hold
> references to conntracks. Loopback traffic might cause some trouble
> because the "previously seen?" expection in ip_conntrack_core wouldn't
> work anymore.
But I wouldn't expect packets there to be held indefinitely, so I
never worried about it.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-02 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-30 19:21 2.4.23/others and ip_conntrack causing hangs James Bourne
2003-12-01 0:22 ` [netfilter-core] " Rusty Russell
2003-12-02 0:20 ` Patrick McHardy
2003-12-02 6:33 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2003-12-02 23:18 ` Patrick McHardy
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